A capriccio of the Tiber, Rome, with figures boating by Castel Sant'Angelo, Villa Medici beyond

Details

The Monogrammist I.D.M.
A capriccio of the Tiber, Rome, with figures boating by Castel Sant'Angelo, Villa Medici beyond
oil on panel
18 ¾ x 29 3/8 in. (47.7 x 74.7 cm.)

Provenance

with Galerie Pardo, Paris, where acquired on 3 July 1956 by the following,
Emil G. Bührle, Zurich, and by descent to the present owner.

Exhibited

Zurich, Kunsthaus, Unbekannte Schönheit. Bedeutende Werke aus fünf Jahrhunderten, June-July 1956, no 40, as 'Paul Bril'.

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Lot Essay

We are grateful to Drs. Luuk Pijl for proposing the attribution to the Monogrammist I.D.M. on the basis of a photograph. Drs. Pijl compares this picture with the elusive master's landscape in the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection, Madrid (for a full discussion on the artist see Ivan Gaskell, The Thyssen-Bornemisza collection. Seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish Painting, London 1989, pp. 430-37).

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